When Franco passed through Lopera in the 1950s he ordered that new houses be demolished and built for his tenants in the Pradillo Guijoso neighborhood, the front of the first body was finally only demolished. Some are currently abandoned and others have been occupied by Lopera's neighbours by keeping firewood or coal inside.

Location: West of the city centre.
Distance: 7.5 km.
Medium: In vehicle tourism and on foot.
Access route: by road and mountain road.

This Sanctuary of the Ibera era, along with another located also in Jaén, in the town of Castellar are very important and have provided the largest number of bronze exvotes, important pieces not only to know the work of this metal in the Iberian world, but to solve many other problems related to the faithful who approached the divinity in these places of worship, such as the type of religiosity, the forms of clothing, the jewels, weapons, the type of hair, etc.

From Collado de los Jardines more than 2,500 exvotes have come out, and from Castellar more than 2,000. The almost all of these objects are kept in the National Archaeological Museum of Madrid.

The exvotes (dolls) of this Shrine of the Collado de los Jardines are of the most varied, in them are represented faithful of all kinds: women, men, warriors, etc.
The latest research was based on the documentation of a historical population in the "Cerro del Castillo" located above the Sanctuary, with the consequent recording of materials and the documentation of 'work units' such as a Roman track, a wall and the environment of the solar that occupied the Iberian necropolis.

The Cueva de los Muñecos is located inside the Natural Park Despeñacolos, the municipal term of Santa Elena, within a ravine, built between colossal stone blocks, in which there are excavated several caves, the largest of which, about 50 meters deep, was probably the limit of the sacred enclosure. Within this cave today there is a water spring that probably should have existed already in ancient times. In the area there is today a Centre for the Interpretation of the Historical and Cultural Heritage of the Natural Park of Despeñacolos, as well as a path for public use that leads to the Sanctuary and a lookout in the so-called Cerro del Castillo.

The site of the first archaeological remains dated from the Neolithic (4000 BC) in the town of La Guardia de Jaén. It was later used by the local inhabitants as a guard and poultry for the cattle from which it comes its current name: Cueva Cabrera.

On a blackened wall there is a red stain that can be a rock painting (cave paintings of the Cabrera Cave).

We suggest...

• A walk up the road. Above the road that crosses it, a small dam is reached, hung by the scrapes of sediments, and at the back there is a pot of clean and transparent waters that invite an exciting bath when it is hot.

• The short climb to the high mountain shelter of La Cueva del Peinero, through a short forest track that part of the Recreative Area. The almost circular panorama that you will have from this place will make you feel part of a wild and great scenario, overtaken by a lion vulture and other raptures.

LOCATION

JH-7155 (Transversal de las Villas) road, 34 km from Mogón. You can also access the opposite end of this road, in which case you have to travel 26 km from the detour on the road A-6202 (direction Charco del Oil).